By Mike Elk It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Pittsburgh of the South! Another Union Victory in Chattanooga & UE Scores Big at National Visa Center! This week’s Payday goes out to workers at Ardent Mills in Chattanooga who voted 25-22 to join UFCW Local 1995.

On this week’s episode of the Folk Labor Desk, JP talks about an upcoming project with artist Matthew Moore that he is preparing for at the University of Louisville’s Speed Art Museum. He sings a song by the Stanley Brothers, written in the 1950s, to start a conversation

By Mike Elk A friend of workers everywhere, Wayne Cliett, a union activist at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, is having medical problems, and needs our help. Payday Report, as a Chattanooga labor publication, is proud to set up a special fund to help him out, which you can donate

By Mike Elk Recently released Census data reveal that, in 2015, the poverty rate dropped significantly for most demographic groups. One of the only groups who didn’t see an improvement were people with disabilities: the percentage of disabled Americans (age 18-64) living in poverty increased from 25.9% to